Organ Encounter

Saint Anthony Chapel is an excitement for all of the five human senses. The eyes of visitors perceive the wooden hand-carved, life-size depictions of the Stations of the Cross, the detailed paintings on the ceiling, and the saints’ visages beaming through the colorful stained-glass windows. Visitors venerate, or touch, the relic of St. Anthony of Padua each Tuesday and taste Christ in the form of the Eucharist quotidianly. The smell of the sweet aroma of incense is a testimony to the timeless faith. Finally, it is the chapel’s pipe organ that provides music, nourishment of the ears, that has the power to transcend in ways that words cannot.

All members of the parish community, the neighborhood, visitors nationally and internationally, musicians and non-musicians alike, are invited to attend a demonstration of the pipe organ on Sunday, July 16, 2017 beginning at 3 p.m. Jeremy Paul Jelinek, organ performance student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (France) and BM candidate at the Eastman School of Music (USA), will explain the history of the organ, demonstrate its colors and its capabilities, and welcome questions. So many hear this magnificent gem of an instrument, but have no understanding of its functionality or of its appearance behind the intricate façades. All will be invited into the choir loft to experience an interactive tour of the organ. Jeremy is former organist of the chapel and leader of the organ rebuilding project completed in 2014.